13 Cal. 3d 134 - Silver v. State Bar’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently June 2004 · most notably 7 Cal. 4th 525 - Santa Clara County Counsel Attorneys Ass'n v. Woodside (1994), 38 Cal. 3d 525 - Smith v. State Bar (1985)
62 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on In the Matter of John Ruffalo Jr · 11 Cal. 3d 352 - Kruger v. Wells Fargo Bank · 4 Cal. 3d 786 - Himmel v. State Bar · Bradpiece v. State Bar · 7 Cal. 3d 676 - Black v. State Bar
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]illfully delays [a] client's suit with a view to his [or her] own gain”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.